New Year, Finally a New Post!

Soo it seems as though I haven't updated my blog in a few weeks...oops! But I hope everyone's winter breaks were amazing and you're keeping up with your new year's resolutions. Mine was to work out every day and guess how long THAT lasted.....one day :P
My time in Japan was amazing though; I spent a lot of time with old friends, family, and shopping like crazy! Here are some of my favorite moments:

My Cousin and his nephew in his new Superman outfit :)

My sassy grandma got tired of me taking pictures of her hehe

I just find this hilarious! 10am on a train...guess someone had a rough night...

Ah the city lights and busy streets...this is my home!

I'm sitting at the PDX airport right now, waiting for my flight to Japan. Since I won't have internet access or a phone there (I know, I'm cut off from the world!) I thought I'd update my blog before I left :)
I'm so exited to go back to my hometown, Tokyo! There's so much to do there...if you keep a bucket list, I urge you to put visiting Tokyo on there. My plan is to see my friends from elementary school, shop A LOT, sleep, eat the best food in the world, celebrate new year's (biggest holiday in Japan!) and work on art of course ;) I'll have tons of stories and pictures to share once I get back, but for now here's a tiny pictorial tour of my favorite things:

Shibuya, the busiest crosswalk in Tokyo and the absolute center of the night life and shopping!

Takeshita Dori of the Harajuku District - all those black specs are people! It's crazy crowded and it's one of the cheapest and coolest places to shop.

Design Festa - My absolute favorite art gallery in the back streets of Harajuku. Artists can rent rooms to feature their work - so  cool!

Ahoy!

Here's my super low quality, last minute picture of me and my dad with the AP Art poster...woot! Thanks daddy, for supporting us! :)

She's Baaack

I must say, my Thanksgiving break this year turned out to be the BEST one yet! There was a total of 16 men and 4 women there...I met many of my second cousins for the first time and they were all crazy football fanatics. Literally, a football game would be on by the time I woke up in the morning, then they'd play some football outside, check their football stats online, talk about football, watch a few more games, then when it was too late at night, play football video games....Nonetheless it was cool to be emerged in the  Southern culture (SO MUCH SWEET TEA!!!) and spend time with loving family :)

Oh, and remember my crazy, sassy Aunt Ginger's picture for the family portrait a few months ago?

Well I got a new one that's pretty funny!

Anybody else bored over break?

So here I am...12:30 AM the night before Thanksgiving chillin' by myself. I'm not going to lie - break's been pretty boring so far; I'm stuck in Midland, Texas (Good ol' George W. Bush's hometown!) with relatives who are all too old to even know what blogging is. So what have I been doing? Watching movies back to back and listening to great music! I just wanted to tell you all about my favorite movie which also has the best soundtrack ever. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly suggest you watch Garden State this break! This is one movie I can watch over and over again and never get tired of :)

Also, happy early Thanksgiving! Can't wait to hear about everyone's breaks!

Tradition!

The Lakeridge drama department just wrapped up their last show of the Fiddler on the Roof musical last night. For those of you who didn't get a chance to come see it, you missed one heck of an emotional and outstanding show...if I say so myself :) I can honestly say that being a part of this production has taught me more about myself and influenced me more than anything else I have done at Lakeridge so far. It's an experience I will never forget! Anyway, I just wanted to share that with you all because it has been a part of my for the past 3 months and it meant a lot. A thank you to all who came to see it and a big shout out to those who were a part of the show! Everyone rocked!

Concentration!

I hope everyone has solid concentrations by now and off to a good start! I'm nervous that we have to have two pieces done by this month...eek! My concentration is about human emotions and how people express them. I'm focusing on anger and frustration because those are the emotions that hit close to home for me lately. On Friday I got to have a mini photo shoot with some of the girls in the art class! Here's one of Eva and Allie that I think is pretty great. I'm a little torn on what sort of materials I should use and how to incorporate these images though!